Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Teach me to Sew Triangles, 13 FAST and EASY techniques!

This is a super fun fall because I have a NEW BOOK, plus fabric and patterns which will be out in Feb 2016!! (see those HERE) I'm writing a whole series of books that not only teaching guides, but reference books AND have a huge number of quilt patterns in them!. I started to use triangles in my quilts from DAY 1 of making a quilt! In this book you get to see my First quilts I ever made, and neither has ever book in a book before.. haha!! There might be a reason our first quilts are not in... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Learn Modern Hexies, thread painting, stitching and wool with my guests!

ITUNES subscription available - Subscribe HERE MY Podcast Guest List! GET the APP to listen on your Android *** Free Tutorials from my guests Nicole Daksiewicz, Melinda Bula, and Pat Wys at the end! Nicole Daksiewicz from Modern Handcraft. I first saw Nicole's work when she did projects for Them O Web, who I also work with! I love her color sense and her project tutorials. She is going to share some better quilt making, how to get the most from your die cut machine, and her modern hexie project tips with us! www.modernhandcraft.com I am crazy in love with... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Please share with your Favorite Quilt Shop!

It's almost show time for me! I'm showing my new fabric from Moda, Hometown Girl, to the quilt shops at the trade show next week and I'd love some help getting the word out to YOUR favorite shops! Let me give you a tour. All need ordered now, available in Feb 2016! My fabric line is called Hometown Girl from Moda With quilting cotton and handcrafted super beautiful batiks. plus 3 new patterns using my fabric lines. Hear are the cottons in gorgeous colors. All the precuts available. Pat Sloan 'red', aqua, and amazing green, dark navy, great taupe grey... Read more →

Pat Sloan: St. Judes Charity Quilt .... purrrr with FREE Block 9

I am just a TINY bit behind on sharing my St. Judes charity blocks. Have you zoomed along without me? Here is Block 9 of the free Snapshots patterns to support St. Judes. A wonderful Sew Along sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop! Block 9 is a kitty!! I have never owned a kitty, my brother had them, but I always had doggies. So I tried to imagine they type of kitty I would own, and I suppose it would be like my brothers.. ha! Here are all the blocks so far.. I hope it brings a LOT of money... Read more →

Pat Sloan: follow along to KY!

See you in Kentucky! I am heading to KY to teach for the Stringtown Quilter's Guild! Will I see you there? I have a talk and two workshops.. still a few openings .. contact them http://stringtownquilters.com/ Plus I still have a few openings for 2016 so you can hire me to visit YOU!! fill out the form Once or twice a day, more when I'm on the road, I share what I'm doing. It might be working my seam ripper, or taking a coffee break on my deck. When I travel you can see my classes in action, including some... Read more →